November 14, 1977 | Volume 47, Issue 20

On Sept. 24 Oklahoma defeated Ohio State 29-28 in an exciting football game that exhibited balanced competition between two institutions with similar attitudes toward intercollegiate athletics....

Ricky Rudd wants NASCAR's rookie award, not just because it sounds nice

Vicksburg High School's elation is tempered by harsh defeat, some anti-football sentiment is heard, and the seniors, joining the legion of ex-football players, savor the season past.

The best pages of one of our best sports books involved a beefy pro football player who had a manic gift of gab and a heightened sense of life's absurdities. The book was George, Plimpton's Paper...

19—Drawing by SQW28—Mundo Color29—Detective Guy Peter-Nassau County Police Racket Squad30, 31—Mundo Color (top left), Tony Triolo (3)36, 37—Neil Leifer, John Iacono (right)38—Neil Leifer46—Manny...

HOWARD GUNNING and SCOTT MILLERENID, OKLA.Playing for the Pizza Inn Pirates in the YMCA league, Howard and Scott, both nine and fourth graders at Glenwood Elementary, led their football team to an...

PRO BASKETBALL—A glance at the standings in the NBA makes one wonder if they haven't been turned upside down. Atlanta, which played .378 ball in 1976 and finished in last place, 18 games out, has...

BILL BRADLEY'S GAMESir:Bill Bradley's article on what it takes to build a true team (You Can't Buy Heart, Oct. 31) was the best I have ever read in your magazine. Bradley was my favorite player...

RUNAWAY

•Bert Jones, Baltimore Colts quarterback, on his career after football: "I'd like to be an entrepreneur. They threw that word about in economics and I always wondered what it meant."

THE JUNIOR CIRCUIT—the American Football Conference, that is—has beaten the haughty old NFC in six of the last seven Super Bowl games and is dominating the NFC in interconference games this...

After Cincinnati upset Cleveland, the NFL's toughest division had the tightest race, the Browns leading their three AFC rivals by a game

Billie Jean King had won three straight tournaments, but once again her nemesis was Chris Evert, who beat her to win the Colgate

For 15 furious rounds it could have gone either way, and often did, but the vote for Ken Norton over Jimmy Young was what counted in the end

A couple of huge high school teammates are leading the Wildcats on a rampage

WEST

OFFENSE: Art Monk, a 6'2", 201-pound sophomore running back for Syracuse, latched onto 14 passes—an NCAA high this season—gained 188 yards and scored two touchdowns as the Orange upset Navy 45-34.

Former Catcher Haywood Sullivan and ex-Trainer Buddy LeRoux thought they were in as Red Sox owners, but a suit and skeptics semi-shattered their dream

Charlie Criss, the NBA's littlest man, soars high with the surprising Hawks